Early Ideas of Evolution

What did Charles Darwin have a theroey about ?

• Sleep

• Animals

• Land

• Evolution

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Choose which scientist corresponds best with the statement: 
acquired characteristics are inherited

• Darwin 

• Lamarck

Who would have stated "acquired traits" such as a giraffe needing a long neck so they stretch it over time

• Darwin

• Lamarck

Sent Darwin and essay with similar ideas as what Darwin proposed.

• Malthus

• Hutton

• Lyell

• Lamarck

• Wallace

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Wrote the book "On the Origin of Species"

• Charles Lyell

• Charles Darwin

Who traveled to the Galapagos islands and noted that species on the islands were similar to each other, but had small differences between them?

• Alfred Wallace

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Thomas Malthus

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Who is considered the co-founder of evolution and said that the driving force for evolution was natural selection?

• Alfred Wallace

• Charles Darwin

• Thomas Malthus

• Gregor Mendel

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Which naturalist suggested that species evolved by the "use it or lose it" idea?

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

• Thomas Malthus

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck

Who proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics?

• Charles Darwin

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Alfred Wallace

• Gregor Mendel

Which scientist's work on the Galapagos Islands contributed to the theory of natural selection?

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• Alfred Wallace

• Thomas Malthus

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